Damascus Hospital
Damascus Hospital (also known as Al Mujtahid Hospital) in Damascus is one of the largest hospitals in Syria. It was founded in 1947 and is run by the Ministry of Health.[1]
| Damascus Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Damascus, Syria |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public |
| Type | Hospital |
| Affiliated university | Ministry of Health |
| Services | |
| Beds | 645 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1947 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Syria |
The hospital has facilities for MRI and CT scan, a gamma camera and lithotripsy device.
The operations ward contains 11 operation rooms suitable for laparoscopic and open heart surgery as well as computerized neurosurgery.
Analyses performed by the hospital lab include hormonal, immune, tumor, pharmaceutical, and lymphatic tests/ It has a stem cell bank.
The hospital provides medical, therapeutic and surgical services to patients. It is used to train students and graduate doctors from Syrian universities and contributes to scientific research.
Hospital activities include internal specialties, including cardiac, neurological, gastrointestinal and kidney. It also performs general, endoscopic, vascular and cardiac surgery, neurosurgery and urosurgery. It has a kidney transplant unit and a physiotherapy unit.
The hospital contains 645 beds, 36 of which are for intensive care, and has a special emergency ward for internal diseases.[1]
References
- 476, Mohannad Orfali - phpline@gmail.com - 00963 933 878. "الهيئة العامة لمشفى دمشق » من نحن". www.damascushospital.org.sy.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)